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By SETH T. STEWART, Secy. 



THE 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

President^ 

TIMOTHY DVVIGHT, D. D., LL.D., 

President, Yale University. 

Superintendent^ 

NORMAN A. CALKINS, 

Asst. Supt., City Schools, New York City. 

General Secretary^ 

SETH T. STEWART, 

P. O. Box 192. Prin. G. S. No. 78, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



W. T. HARRIS, LL. D., 

United States Commissioner of Education. 



OF PROPOSED 

BOARDS OF DIRECTORS. 

FRANCIS L. PATTON, D. D., LL.D., 

President, Princeton University. 

Hon. SETH LOW, LL.D., 

President, Columbia College. 

Hon. a. S. DRAPER, 

Supt., Pub. Inst., State of New York. 

C. K. ADAMS. LL. D., 

President, Cornell University. 

HENRY DARLING., LL.D., 

President. Hamilton College. 

J. M. TAYLOR, LL.D., 

President, Vassar College. 

DAVID J. HILL, LL.D., 

President, University of Rochester. 

C. N. SIMS, LL.D., 

Chancellor, Syracuse University. 

HENRY M. MacCRACKEN, D. D., LL.D., 

Vice-Chancellor, University of the City of New York. 

Gen. ALEXANDER S. WEBB, 

President, College of the City of New York. 

A. B. HERVEY, Ph.D., 

President, St. Lawrence University. 

WALTER B. GUNNISON, 

President of the New York State Teachers' Association. 



FACULTY. 



UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. 

President: TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D. D., LL.D., 



HARVARD. 

Prof. F. J. Child, 

English Literature. 

Prof. N. S. Shaler, 
Geology. 

Prof. S. M. Macvane, 
History. 

George Lyman Kittredge, 

English Language. 

Dr. D. a. Sargent, 
Physical Training. 

PRINCETON. 

Prof. C. A. Young, 

Astronomy. 

Prof. C. F. Brackett, 
Physics. 

Prof. Wm. Lib bey, Jr. 

Physical Geography. 

Prof. Frothingham, 
Archaeology. 

Prof. Osborne, 
Biology. 



Yale University. 

YALE. 

Prof. Geo. T. Ladd, 

Psychology. 

Prof. Tracy Peck, 

Latin. 

Prof. T. D, Seymour, 
Greek. 

Prof. A. W. Phillips, 

Mathematics. 

Prof. Wm. G. Mixter, 
Chemistry. 

COLUMBIA. 

Prof. Theodore Dwight, 

Law. 

Prof. J. S. Newberry, 

Paleontology. 

Prof. John W. Burgess, 

Political Science. 

Prof. HjALMAR LI. Boyesen, 
German. 

Prof. Chas. Sprague Smith, 
Scandinavian. 



FACULTY. 



SCHOOL EXTENSION. 



Superintendent: N. A. CALKINS, 
New York City. 



Wm. H. Maxwell, 

Supt. Pub. Inst., Brooklyn. 

James MacAlister, 

Supt. Pub. Inst., Philadelphia. 

Edwin P. Seaver, 
Supt. Pub. Inst., Boston, 

Thomas Balliet, 

Supt. Pub. Inst, Springfield. 



J. W. Dickinson, 
Sec'y State Bd. of Ed., Massachusetts. 

Chas. D. Hine, 
Sec'y State Bd. of Ed,, Connecticut. 

Richard Edwards, 
State Supt. Pub. Inst., Illinois. 

M. A. Newell, 
State Supt. Pub. Inst., Maryland. 



Nicholas Murray Butler, 

Prest. New York College for the Training 
of Teachers. 

Wm. J. Milne, 
Prin. State Normal School, Albany. 

A. C. Apgar, 
Prof. Normal School, Trenton. 

E. H. Cook, 

Head Master, Rutgers G. S., 
New Brunswick, N. J. 



W. H. Payne, 
Prest. Peabody Normal School. 

Alpheus Hyatt, 
Curator, Bost. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

Jerome Allen, 
Prof. University, City of New York, 

Albert G. Boyden, 

Prin. State Normal School, 

Bridgewater, Mass. 



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CONSTITUTION. 

The design of the University and School Extension is to sup- 
plement and strengthen the university and the school systems ; to 
increase the culture and to promote the interests of teachers as 
members of a profession; and to advance and extend the knowl- 
edge of letters and of the arts and sciences. 

Its work shall be under the control of an Executive Committee, 
Boards of Directors, and faculties of University Extension and 
School Extension. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

The President, the Superintendent, and the General Secretary 
shall constitute the Executive Committee. This Committee shall 
organize Boards of Directors and auxiliary societies, for each of 
which it shall add special provisions to this Constitution ; but no 
change in any Board or Society once organized shall be effected 
without the consent of the same. The Executive Committee 
shall, also, determine the terms and conditions on which societies 
already in existence may become associated with the work of the 
University and School Extension. 



UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL EXTENSION. 



The Executive Committee is authorized to construe and enforce 
the Constitution and to determine ail questions of jurisdiction. It 
is authorized to further the objects to which reference has already- 
been made. It shall have the title with full control of the prop- 
erty of the general Society until the National Board of Directors 
effects an, incorporation, when the title to said property shall 
vest in said Board. The Executive Committee shall organize and 
shall be members of the National Board of Directors. 

PRESIDENT. 

The President shall be elected by the Faculty of the University 
Extension, each member being entitled to one vote, and no person 
shall be eligible who is not at the time of his election a President 
of some university or college represented in the Faculty, He 
shall be elected every second year, in the month of June, the first 
election dating from June, 1889, and his term of office shall begin 
the first of September following. No President shall hold office 
during two successive terms. 

SUPERINTENDENT. 

The Superintendent shall be elected by the Faculty of the 
School Extension, each member being entitled to one vote, and no 
person shall be eligible who is not at the time of his election a 
Superintendent or a Principal. He shall be elected every second 
year, in the month of June, the first election dating from June, 
1890, and his term shall begin the first of September following. 
No superintendent after the first shall hold office for tv/o con- 
secutive terms. 



CONSTITUTION. 



GExNERAL SECRETARY. 

The General Secretary shall be appointed by the President 
and the Superintendent, and he shall hold office during good 
behavior. He shall attend to all the correspondence of the Univer- 
sity and School Extension, shall prepare and issue all notices, shall 
have charge of all necessary printing of the General Society, and 
shall determine for all local and auxiliary societies the forms 
of required printing. He shall serve as Secretary to the National 
Board of Directors, and to the Faculties. He may appoint assist- 
ant secretaries, who shall be subject to his directions, and who 
shall hold office by appointment from year to year ; but after 
service for three successive years, they may hold office during 
good behavior. In case of vacancy in the office of General Sec- 
retary, the position shall be filled by the appointment of one of 
the assistant secretaries. 

FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. 

The courses of study, the examinations, the certificates, and 
the diplomas in subjects not generally taught in the schools, 
shall be in the exclusive control of the Faculty of the University 
Extension. 

The Faculty of the University Extension shall consist of a 
president and professors appointed by him from the universities 
and colleges in the several States, on the nomination of their 
respective presidents, and, if deemed expedient, from among 
prominent specialists not professors of colleges. The four insti- 
tutions represented in the first organization of the University 
Extension shall be entitled to equal representation, and each State 
shall be entitled to at least one member in the Faculty. 



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The members of this Faculty shall be appointed in the month 
of July for the term of two years, beginning the first of September. 
After two years of service, appointments may be made permanent, 
provided, however, that professors may remain members of the 
Faculty of University Extension, only so long as actively con- 
nected with their respective colleges. 

FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL EXTENSION. 

The courses of study, the examinations, the certificates, and the 
diplomas in subjects generally taught in the schools shall be in 
exclusive control of the Faculty of the School Extension. 

The Faculty of the School Extension shall consist of a 
Superintendent and members appointed by him from the number 
of superintendents, principals, and teachers in the different States, 
each State being entitled to at least one representative in the 
Faculty. 

The members of this Faculty shall be appointed in the month 
of July, for the term of one year, beginning the first of September. 
After two years of service, if reappointed, they may remain in the 
Faculty while connected with school work, 

MEMBERS. 

Any approved person, on payment of the required registration 
fee, may become a member of the University and School Exten- 
sion, except that, to be registered in the University Extension 
courses other than preparatory, the applicant for membership must 
be not less than twenty years of age if male, and not less than 
eighteen years of age if female. The name of any member may 
at any time for cause be dropped by a two-thirds vote of the 
Executive Committee of the City, State, or National Board ; and, 



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in general, any appointing, electing, or organizing body may at any 
time for cause, after due hearing rescind its action and thus drop 
any appointee or officer, or disband any Board or Society under 
its jurisdiction. 

FUNDS. 

Each Board or Society shall control its own funds, shall* by 
a two-thirds vote of its Board of Directors designate a bank or 
trust company as a depository of the same in which all moneys 
received shall be promptly deposited, shall incur no liability beyond 
these funds, and shall alone be responsible for its obligations. 
Unexpended final balances of any disbanded organization shall 
vest in the Board of Directors under whose auspices the organiza- 
tion was formed. Each Board of Officers shall by a two-thirds vote 
determine the conditions under which funds or other property 
exceeding one thousand dollars in value, shall be withdrawn, 
expended, or otherwise transferred. 



FEES. 

The registration, class, and lecture fees shall be received by the 
Secretary of the Board or Society under whose auspices the lessons 
or lectures are given. The registration fee shall be determined by 
the Executive Committee, which is a part of the National Board. 
One-half of said fee shall belong to the City Board if any exist, 
and the remainder shall be forwarded by the officer in possession 
of the money on or before the first day of October, January, April, 
and July to the Secretary of the State Board of Directors, or to the 
General Secretary, The class and the lecture fees shall be deter- 



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mined by the Executive Committee of the Board or Society under 
whose auspices the lessons or lectures are given. All other fees, 
including correspondence class fees, correspondence lecture fees, 
library fees, examination fees, and certificate fees, shall be 
determined and received by the Executive Committee, which is 
a part of the National Board of Directors. No class, lecture, 
or other fee shall be received by any Board or Society from 
any person not provided with the member's receipt for a given 
year, signed by the Secretary of the City, State, or National Board, 
certifying the payment of the registration fee. 

REPORTS. 

In the month of March, the Executive Committee of each 
Auxiliary Society shall send to the President of the Board of 
Directors three copies of its annual report, and the Executive Com- 
mittees of the City Boards of Directors shall send to the Presi- 
dent of the State Board two copies of each of said reports and 
tv/o copies of its own annual report ; and the Executive Com- 
mittee of the State Board shall send to the Regent, or President of 
the National Board, a copy of its report, which shall include one 
copy of each of the other reports referred to. 

BY-LAWS. 

The Executive Committee of the National Board, the Boards 
of Directors, the Faculties, and the Auxiliary Societies, may 
make and may at any time change their own By-Laws concerning 
matters not especially provided for in this Constitution. 



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AMENDMENTS. 
This Constitution may be changed by a two-thirds vote of the 
members of each of the Faculties and of the Boards of Directors 
affected by said amendment. The amendments must be proposed 
by the Executive Committee of the General Society and by the 
Faculties. In counting the votes of Directors, the votes of the 
members of each shall have a value proportionate to the number 
of members individually registered in the University and School 
Extension under the jurisdiction of the respective Boards. 



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CONSTITUTION 



OF THE 



STATE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 

[provisional.] 

The State Board of Directors of the University and School 
Extension organizes under the general Constitution, adding thereto 
as a part of the same the following Constitution : The Board shall 
be organized by the Executive Committee of the National Board of 
Directors ; being duly incorporated, it shall be a self perpetuating 
body with power to increase or decrease the number of its members. 

The immediate design of this Board shall be to organize the 
work of the University and School Extension throughout the 
State by the following means : i. Instituting public meetings in the 
interest of the cause ; 2. Organizing City Boards of Directors in 
the several cities of the State ; 3. Organizing and fostering the 
auxiliary societies throughout the State ; 4. Organizing the work- 
ers, /. e.y the lecturers and teachers for University and School 
Extension work throughout the State ; 5. Planning lecture systems 
for the State, co-operating with the National and the City Boards ; 
6. Encouraging citizens to become patrons of some department of 
learning by making themselves pecuniarily responsible for courses 
of lessons or of lectures ; 7. Encouraging citizens to become life 
members of the' Board of Directors or Honorary Members for a 
year, by the payment of one hundred thousand or of ten thousand 
dollars, for each, respectively, into the treasury of said Board, or of 
a City i3oard. 



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The power to increase or decrease the number of members of 
the Board shall not affect the tenure of resident members of the 
National Board of Directors, who shall be members of the State 
Board, as also shall be the Secretary appointed by the General 
Secretary, and the Life and Honorary Members, as provided by the 
Constitution. 

The presidents of the five or ten local Boards, designated by 
the Executive Committee of the State Board as having the largest 
number of students shall be members of the State Board, as also, 
the President of any local Board the number of whose student 
members equals that required for this purpose by the State Board. 

If the State Board of Regents or the State Board of Education 
set aside a sum of money or other property to be used in the work 
of University and School Extension for the benefit of teachers or 
others it shall be entitled to representation in the Board of 
Directors, and to such control of said money or other property as 
shall be entirely consistent with the discharge of its duty, as 
trustee or guardian of public property. 

Presidents or heads of leading educational institutions, or 
organizations, may become members by a majority vote of the 
Board of Directors; all others require a two-thirds vote. The 
terms of one-third of the elected members shall expire every three 
years on the first day of April. 

The officers of the Board shall be a President, two Vice-Presi- 
dents, a Treasurer, and the Secretary. The election of officers and 
members of the Board shall take place every second year in the 
month of April, the term beginning the first day of May. The offi- 
cers shall name an Executive Committee of three members, one 
of whom shall be the Secretary. The Executive Committee shall 
have the right to make nominations for office or for membership in 



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the Board. For the transaction of business, in any meeting regu- 
larly called, three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum, 
unless otherwise ordered by the State Board. 

The Board of Directors shall act as a Board of Trustees, 
and as such shall have the title to its property with the rights 
and duties of trustees. 

It shall be the duty of the State Board to further all the work 
of the University and School Extension. It shall have con- 
trol of the organization of all local Boards in the State, which shall 
proceed under the Constitution for a City Board, and of all class 
and lecture systems not presided over by such Boards. In arrang- 
ing for the lectures throughout the State, its Executive Committee 
shall consult with the Executive Committee of the National 
Board. 

The work in the class and lecture systems adopted or estab- 
lished by the Board of Directors shall be exclusively prescribed by 
the faculties ; and the workers shall by preference be members of 
the faculties, or they may be persons authorized by the Executive 
Committee of the State or National Boards under a system 
approved by the faculties. The class and the lecture systems shall, 
as nearly as practicable, follow in time and topic any schedules 
issued by the Executive Committee, which is a part of the National 
Board. 

The Executive Committee of the State Board of Directors shall 
discuss and plan courses of lectures together with the Executive 
Committees of auxiliary societies of the State Board. It shall assist 
in organizing the annual meetings of said auxiliary societies. 

The State Board shall carry out the legislation of the National 
Board, as required by said Board, and the Executive Committee of 



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the State Board shall have the power to enforce the legislation of 
the State Board throughout the State. 

The Secretary shall receive all fees. The President of the 
Board, the Treasurer, and the Secretary shall receive all donations 
or endowments. The Secretary shall issue all receipts and cer- 
tificates of membership. He shall distribute to all the State mem- 
bers of the Extension the circulars, schedules, and notices issued 
by the General Secretary. The cost of circulars thus distributed 
shall be borne by the State Board. On or before the first day of 
March, one-tenth of all donations and endowments received without 
restriction to the contrary, shall be forwarded to the General 
Secretary. 



UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL EXTENSION. 



CONSTITUTION 

OF THE 

CITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 

[provisional.] 

The City Board of Directors of the University and School 
Extension organizes under the general Constitution, adding thereto 
as a part of the same the following Constitution : The Board shall 
be organized by the Executive Committee of the State or of the 
National Board of Directors ; being duly incorporated, it shall be 
a self perpetuating body with power to increase or decrease the 
number of its members. 

The immediate design of this Board shall be to supplement and 
strength within the city the university and the school systems. It 
shall undertake to accomplish this object by planting and fostering 
the work of University and School Extension by the following 
means : i. Holding public meetings in the interest of the cause ; 2. 
Organizing the auxiliary societies provided by the Constitution ; 
3. Encouraging organized societies to pursue the work ; 4. Institu- 
ting systems of occasional class work ; 5. Establishing systems of 
occasional lectures ; 6. Encouraging citizens to become patrons of 
some department of learning by making themselves pecuniarily 
responsible for courses of lessons or of lectures ; 7. Encouraging 
citizens to become life members of the Board of Directors or 
Honorary Members for a year, by the payment of ten thousand or 
of one thousand dollars, for each, respectively, into the treasury of 
said Board. 



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The power to increase or decrease the number of members of 
the Board shall not affect the tenure of resident members of the 
State or National Boards of Directors, who shall be members of 
the City Board, as also shall be the Secretary appointed by the 
State or General Secretary, and the Life and Honorary Members, 
as provided by the Constitution. 

If the City Board of Education set aside a sum of money or 
other property to be used in the work of University and School 
Extension for the benefit of teachers or others it shall be entitled 
to representation in the Board of Directors, and to such control of 
said money or other property as shall be entirely consistent with 
the discharge of its duty as trustee or guardian of public property. 

Presidents or heads of leading educational institutions, or 
organizations, may become members by a majority vote of the 
Board of Directors; all others require a two-thirds vote. The 
terms of one-third of the elected members shall expire every three 
years on the first day of April. 

The officers of the Board shall be a President, two Vice-Presi- 
dents, a Treasurer, and the Secretary. The election of officers and 
members of the Board shall take place every second year in the 
month of April, the term beginning the first day of May. The 
officers shall name an Executive Committee of three members, one 
of whom shall be the Secretary. The Executive Committee shall 
have the right to make nominations for office or for membership in 
the Board. For the trasaction of business, in any meeting regu- 
larly called, three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum, 
unless otherwise ordered by the City Board. 

The Board of Directors shall act as a Board of Trustees, and 
as such shall have the title to its property with the rights and 
duties of trustees. 




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It shall be the duty of the City Board to further all the work 
of the University and School Extension. It shall have control of 
the class and lecture systems in its jurisdiction. In arranging for 
the latter, however, its Executive Committee shall consult with the 
Executive Committee of the State Board. 

The work in the class and lecture systems adopted or estab- 
lished by the Board of Directors shall be exclusively prescribed by 
the faculties ; and the workers shall by preference be members 
of the faculties, or they shall be persons authorized by the Execu- 
tive Committee of the State or National Boards under a system 
approved by the respective faculties. The class and the lecture 
systems shall, as nearly as practicable, follow in time and topic 
any schedules issued by the Executive Committee, which is a part 
of the National Board. 

The Board of Directors shall retain control of its lecture 
system, but it may delegate to auxiliary societies authorized by 
the Constitution the establishment of class systems. Its Execu- 
tive Committee shall discuss and plan courses of lectures to- 
gether with the Executive Committees of auxiliary societies of the 
City Board. 

The Secretary shall receive all fees. The President of the 
Board, the Treasurer, and the Secretary shall receive all donations 
or endowments. The Secretary shall issue all receipts and certifi- 
cates of membership. He shall distribute to all the city members 
of the Extension the circulars, schedules, and notices issued by the 
State or the General Secretary. The cost of circulars thus distrib- 
uted shall be borne by the City Board. On or before the first day of 
March, one-tenth of all donations or endowments received, without 
restriction to the contrary, shall be forwarded by the officer in posses- 
sion of the same to the State Secretary, or to the General Secretary. 



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